I've just downloaded and installed spring on ubuntu 10.04. I was a good AoE player and I'm having some troubles here.
What I'm going to explain is my experience until i get tired. May be I will never be able to play, some people thinks i'm not patient enough, i think starting some stuff is hard, and i think that a game if it's hard to play your first time you'll probably don't would like to play. A game should be for fun.
First, installation, easy.
Second , mods and maps. The directory .spring/mods did not exist, so it fail to download stuff on there. I created it myself, easy. But it's a hidden folder, a linux newbie will never reach that point.
then, i tried to play myself on singleplayer, no maps, no mods, no game. sucks.
then I go 'online' where i can download maps and mods with right click, springs hangs and quits. no information shown. it happens twice or more. not nice but i can handle it.
finally , my first game, with real players, but i do not know what to do or how to move. fuck, 1 hour for this?.
but, something happens, people on the chat helped me to find the forum and from here i reach some stuff(manuals and docs, lot to read.) but that's a lot. There is no tutorial? i been looking around for a 'solo' tutorial, not a doc, a game-tutorial . where the machine tells me what to do next and how to do it. there is no such thing or i have not been able to find it. so.... i read.
and i will read meanwhile i play alone, to learn faster by test and fail, because now i have some maps and mods.
i select the map 'intro battle v3' and 'balanced annihilation v7',add a bot, and click start. nice. but ... why I win so fast?? (1 second )
i'll try again with more bots, with different AI. crashhhhhhh.
would you like to open the log file? o yes, please, i will paste it to the forum to help on it. but, there is no editor selected, i select it, my loved vim . fuck what now? i can not see my screen properly, i'm stack to 800x600 ? o lord.
i'll post and restart. let's see if when rebooted i'm on the mood to try again.
